“a phenomena”
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
Criteria instead of criterion.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 1 December 2017 06:54 (six years ago) link
Not 100% on point in this thread, but in my tiredness the phrase "have sex" just suddenly struck me as odd. The active "have" is already odd to begin with ("I'm having a slice of cake"). But "have sex" is this weird level of abstraction from the act. "Fucking" clearly describes a specific action/activity. "Engaging in intercourse" is more abstracted but it's still clear that you are doing a thing. But "having sex" sounds like some kind of strange, suspended state rather than an action.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 1 December 2017 07:15 (six years ago) link
xp yes fucking yes
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
weird xp
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 1 December 2017 08:18 (six years ago) link
having sex is holding it in your hand
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
i’m having a sex right now
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 December 2017 08:55 (six years ago) link
^now that's a phrase/construction i dislike
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 18:14 (six years ago) link
apparently people still don't understand how to use hashtags
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 09:35 (six years ago) link
"it's #raining in #melbourne!!! #watchout for #floods and #rain #thisisscary #dontgooutside #bringyourumbrella"
no
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/smartphone-apps/apples-date-related-bug-causes-headaches-for-device-users-20171202-gzxhua.html
A bug in Apple's software is causing headaches for many device users, with apps that use local notifications causing their devices to crash as of Saturday.Apple users took to the internet to complain of the glitch
Apple users took to the internet to complain of the glitch
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
http://www.theage.com.au/world/despite-condemnations-donald-trump-is-impervious-to-the-uproar-he-causes-20171130-gzvvpe
On Wednesday, local time, Trump took to Twitter before sunrise to share three unverified videos
how do you "take to" something when you're already using it
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
like a duck takes to waterlike a Trump takes to Twitter
― jmm, Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
okay that works
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
takin' it to the tweets
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
the revolutionary moves among the people like a duck takes to twitter
― mark s, Sunday, 3 December 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
how do you "take to" something when you're already using it?
I don't see a particular problem with this. 'Took to' to me means someone logged into their account/opened an app in order to post. And even if the app is already running, the action of bringing it to the foreground is still required in order to post.
― dubmill, Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
but... he's already on twitter
I don't understand the objection unless he's literally using Twitter 24/7?
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
It's like, if a ship is harboured and then takes to sea... isn't it?
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
If Trump has a thought, picks up his phone, opens the Twitter app, and posts, then you can perfectly legitimately say he 'took to' Twitter. But in the case of him sharing the Britain First videos, you might assume he saw them on Twitter in the first place, in which case he was clearly already using Twitter and the 'took to' idiom is not appropriate (unless, that is, he watched the videos on Twitter, left Twitter, then thought to himself, 'I'm going to share those videos I saw', and opened up the app again in order to do so).
― dubmill, Sunday, 3 December 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
Yes, of course, duh... except a ship at harbour is still 'on the sea', sort of, it's just not sailing on the sea, to extend my tortuous analogy to breaking point... ummmmmmm.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3SNk3ffoA
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link
What if a boat spends all afternoon sailing round and round the harbour, is it at sea?
― dubmill, Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
A harbour is not the sea, of course, so even that doesn't work. I did say a ship and not a boat though, a ship sailing round and round a harbour wouldn't be the done thing.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:17 (six years ago) link
Come to think of it, the phrase normally used is 'put to sea'.
― dubmill, Sunday, 3 December 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
A presenter used the word "deprivatize" at a workshop I was at last week--as in, "Deprivatize your strategies with other teachers at your school." As in, "share."
― clemenza, Sunday, 3 December 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
People just standing about are already on their feet, yet if they begin to run we may say they "took to their heels and ran".
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
lol @ deprivatize
makes sense though -- the word focuses on the proprietary nature of some teachers and their teaching materials
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 December 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
The ameliorating language of receptionists/similar junior-staff gatekeepers: asking you to do something eg. “Could you wait over there FOR ME?”
AAAARGH
― kim jong deal (suzy), Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
come on, do it for mommy! :)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
In office terms, the people saying it to me are basically twelve.
― kim jong deal (suzy), Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:16 (six years ago) link
Sir! Please reprivatize yourself immediately!
― mick signals, Monday, 4 December 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
"slutshame" is kind of ridiculous word esp used by a us senator in reference to another us senator
― marcos, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
"late capitalism"
yeah, for sure, on it's way out, any day now...
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 December 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
it keeps getting laterand later and lateri feel like i'm ina fallingelevator
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, March 12, 2015 9:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 14 December 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link
i stand by my defense of "late capitalism" offered ages ago in this thread. though i am sure it is annoying in many hands. maybe "later capitalism" would be better.
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 14 December 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
The term "late capitalism" was first used by Werner Sombart in his 1902 magnum opus Der Moderne Kapitalismus
Basically if we've been in "late capitalism" for like 48% of the years since Wealth of Nations was published it does seem like we're ready for a new phase
― President Keyes, Thursday, 14 December 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
have i complained about the "you don't get to..." formulation as a substitute for "you shouldn't do..."
"you don't get to tell me what i think" etc.
― Mordy, Friday, 15 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
increasingly, "the middle class"
― marcos, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
mental gymnastics
― Yerac, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 20:28 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m17rt_xo9x0
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
"constitutional crisis"
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 December 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
don’t come to australia ever then
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 21 December 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
gift as a verb― mookieproof, Monday, January 23, 2017 3:46 PM (ten months ago)
― mookieproof, Monday, January 23, 2017 3:46 PM (ten months ago)
just use give, dammit
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 December 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
_gift as a verb― mookieproof, Monday, January 23, 2017 3:46 PM (ten months ago)_just use give, dammit
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 22 December 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
the world's a mess it's in my wild gift
― Mordy, Friday, 22 December 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
gift as a verb is def from the same ppl who brought you invite as a noun
― ogmor, Friday, 22 December 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
and thrift as a verb
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 22 December 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
dud:gift as a v.classic: re-gift as practice
― y'know, LIBS! libertarians, libertines, even liberians and librarians (Hunt3r), Friday, 22 December 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
bad/good faith
― flappy bird, Friday, 22 December 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link